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I have been playing Dead Space these last two days and that game is intense as hell. It used to be that Silent Hill was more of the creepy atmosphere feeling and Resident Evil was the game with jump-scares. This game has both of em and it really works those terror-nerves. I am definitely no playing this one at night.
I just got this 360 elite with Resident Evil 5. And since my old 360 red-ringed and my old 20 gig was maxxed out, i can only now experience the install to HDD feature and it really cuts down the loading times on Dead Space. Going from 6-10 seconds to 2 seconds to start the game. And no more in-game loading with doors not opening. Also played through Shadow Complex and playing through it again for achievements.
I can only play these new games since i am still waiting for my data transfer kit to arrive.
Games i bought recently:
Monkey Island: Special Edition
Resident Evil 5 (got it with the system)
Streetfighter IV
Dead Space
And games on the way this week:
Ninja Gaiden 2
Grand Theft Auto IV
Gears of War 2
The Simpsons
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
Got a really good deal on them, so I am very happy. Some of these games are still 60 euros or at least 30 euros.
AND: I finally hit 11k on my gamerscore!! At least on xbox live. Still working on the brewmaster meta achievement in WoW. (only lastst this week)
I just got this 360 elite with Resident Evil 5. And since my old 360 red-ringed and my old 20 gig was maxxed out, i can only now experience the install to HDD feature and it really cuts down the loading times on Dead Space. Going from 6-10 seconds to 2 seconds to start the game. And no more in-game loading with doors not opening. Also played through Shadow Complex and playing through it again for achievements.
I can only play these new games since i am still waiting for my data transfer kit to arrive.
Games i bought recently:
Monkey Island: Special Edition
Resident Evil 5 (got it with the system)
Streetfighter IV
Dead Space
And games on the way this week:
Ninja Gaiden 2
Grand Theft Auto IV
Gears of War 2
The Simpsons
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
Got a really good deal on them, so I am very happy. Some of these games are still 60 euros or at least 30 euros.
AND: I finally hit 11k on my gamerscore!! At least on xbox live. Still working on the brewmaster meta achievement in WoW. (only lastst this week)
Related to:
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts,
The Simpsons Game,
Grand Theft Auto IV,
Ninja Gaiden II,
Resident Evil 5,
Dead Space,
The Secret of Monkey Island,
Shadow Complex,
Street Fighter IV
Ok, so I grew up in the capitol of Suriname, Paramaribo. Don't know where that is? Here:
Although I say capitol, it actually feels like a quaint (spelling?) village with a population of 300.000+.
Although I say capitol, it actually feels like a quaint (spelling?) village with a population of 300.000+.
Now it being a 3rd world country, we always trail behind in luxury stuff like videogames. And I was fortunate enough to have parents that could afford to go on vacation for 2 weeks a year to Miami, Florida. I would get pocket-money, which started at $25 at age 6 and was bumped up to $500 by the age of 14.
And since I have always had a passion for videogames, guess what happened. Yup I would spend all my money by day 3, buying the newest system with a couple of games. And I'd be bored for the coming 12 days. My parents always tell everybody that story.
Now, the buzz from somebody getting the newest systems in Paramaribo would hit the streets pretty fast and we would cross town on our bikes to go see Super Mario 64 or Tekken.
And I remember biking to my best friend's house in the afternoon, Snes my backback together with Mortal Kombat 2 and Turtles in Time fresh from the shelves in Miami. (He hated that last one)
I guess the zipper from my backpack had gone bad and my bag suddenly opened up, sending my Snes rolling down the street. I literally jumped off my bike, threw it to the side and dashed between cars after my precious machine. It rolled down for quite some distance and luckily it didn't get run over. As was I. (but I didn't care at the time)
So I reach my friend's house, hastily hookup the system and the thing works like nothing happened. No moving parts ftw.
That shit would not fly today at all. Actually my 360 red ringed on me 3 weeks ago...from heat. The Snes survived asfalt!
Related to:
Xbox 360,
Nintendo Super System
I had my first week of vacation last week, since Tuesday. And I was doing a HC Naxxramas Guild run on Wednesday already. :) I have a great casual raiding guild with people that have awesome gear and leave slots open for guildies like me that are mostly trailing behind. We did a full run and I honestly don't understand where people get this amount of time. We started at 19:00pm and were done by 1.00am. Granted we wiped on Thaddius 3 times due to an uncooperative Deathknight. (Who was on trial and promptly got kicked for not following orders and ultra-low dps, ouch!)
So we did a full HC Naxxramas run and I replaced most of my PvE gear. I am now slightly shy of 2.5k dps. Seriously, how do people get to 4k? I'll find out I guess. (in the next expansion) My new weapons kind of give away the theme to Naxxramas and although they really boosted my damage out put, i am kinda sad that I lost my God of War 3 look.
Related to:
God of War III,
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King,
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade,
World of Warcraft
Been quite busy lately, but decided to blog on my lunch-break. While awaiting Giantbomb's linking of WoW Europe achievements, I'd thought I'd post about my WoW character.
My main character is Basora, a female Tauren shaman on Bloodscap. She is actually the 2nd character I made, the first being a female Orc warrior named Regalia on Thunderhorn. Nowadays I just do dailies for an hour to boost several reputations of factions, but I don't have time to play it for long stretches at this time. After the 3.0 patch I dual specced enhancement for PvE and enhancement for PvP. (Enhancement is the melee talent tree, with elemental being the caster tree and restoration the healing tree)
After going through the PvP system to grind some honor points, I now have 4/5 hatefeful gladiator PvP set, which is helping me get through the battlegrounds alot better. It looks pretty good too. I like the kilt, but hate the helmet. Just an ugly thing if you ask me. Weapons are pride and greed which God of War 3 ripped off. :) Who knows, I might start doing Arena matches in the summer too.
Basora
It should be alot less stressfull in a week or so and then I'll take up regular raiding again for my PvE items. Ulduar here I come! I am still enjoying the game if you can't tell. (been playing since the beta)
Oh and 4810 achievement points! And just wait till next week when I have more time so I can go after the silly ones as well. Giantbomb, give me my WoW achievementssss!!!!!
Oh and on a side note, my 360 redringed on me last week, just after the 3 year guarantee period ofcourse. And seing as my 20 gig harddisk was full, I have decided that I'd be better off buying an elite with 120 gigs. In the future Imight get this one repaired and sell it.
Anyways, once again Giantbomb make with the EU WoW achievements!!
Related to:
Achievements,
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade,
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King,
Xbox 360,
God of War III,
World of Warcraft
You know what is better than achievements? Unexpected achievements. The ones that pop up out of nowhere while you are just playing a game, minding your own beezwax.
More or less the same thing happened to me while installing a new game on my PC. After the installation was done, the game suggested therecommended settings of my max resolution of 1650*1050 with no AA. Out of habit I have been gaming at a resolution of 1280*1024 with 2xAA, because that used to work for me in most every game without ahving to spend too much time tweaking in the video-options menu. Needless to say this was an unexpected and really nice surprise. It's funny how easily you can get stuck in your habits.
So I immediately fired up all the games I had installed on my harddrive and changed the settings to max 1650*1050 and boy does WoW look nice and crisp. No AA needed if you ask me as there were almost no jaggies to be seen due to the high resolution.
But the cooleste part of my rig is that the two key components came from my best friends back home in Suriname and my Girlfriend. When I turned 30 last year my girlfriend surprised me with this great samsung 2032BW lcd-screen. Dunno how big it exaclty is, but it's more than enough for me. And the videocard came from my friends back home in Suriname, when I was there for the summer. I brought them a couple of games and after my stay of 3 months, they rushed over to my house on the day of my departure to present me with an Nvidia 8800gts. Considering that I was still on an agp videocard, you could say that I was extremely happy with it and still am.
So above all else I am gratfeull for all these awesome and fulfilling relationships in my life. And the crisp graphics remind me of this every day. :)
Compared to my ex-girlfriend my current girlfriend is a Godsend. My ex used to scoff at me collecting stuff and made fun of me when I got excited about certain new releases, saying: it's all pixels anyways. My current girlfriend surprised me with a copy of Shadow of the Colossus form her first paycheck! She actually remembered that I really wanted that game. And although she isn't really a gamer, she now has the gaming knowledge to see that Peggle isn't really a game. (Can you control the ball? No? So there is no skill linvolved? What a stupid game) And when my savings were a little short to buy a Wii at launch, she chipped so I could still get it.
Big difference compared to my ex. 5 years and still going strong! And to my friends back in Suriname...friends for life!
Related to:
Shadow of the Colossus,
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade,
World of Warcraft,
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
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